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"yay! I was hoping you would say that!"Nika smiled the joy could be seen on her face. "well actually my friend Rex said that he really enjoys this class. I personally think it would be fun, but I don't think I would br any good at it because it just sounds like a lot of random guessing." |
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She got out her journal as Nika spoke, then frowned "Well, if I'm being honest I don't like the sound of this subject. It's like you said, it's mostly guess work. But I thought I should at least try the subject before I judge it." She rolled her eyes then looked around for a change of subject. "Is this your first lesson? I don't think I've seen you in any others." |
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Simon walked into the class. As he was new, he didn't know many people, just the ones he met at Diagon Alley and at the feast. "Hello professor." the boy greeted with a smile. He then took a seat at the front of the class. He didn't like standing when everyone was sitting. |
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YAY DIVINATION!!! Joshua Carter was quite cheerful as he climbed the stairs to the Divination classroom because this class was his favourite. Hehe. When he stepped inside the class, he happily waved at the professor ''Hello professor!'' Since divination class was his favourite class, divination professor was his favourite professor. Right after spotting Evelyn, Destiny and Patroclus, he walked towards them and chose a seat near them. While he sat down he nodded at his friends and girlfriend then moved a little to make sure that no one was blocking his sight of the professor. |
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Huh? Was she good at this class? Crap, she was sorta hoping he was gonna be good and could give her help. Unless... maybe he was asking her to see if she did need his help before he offered it to her. Yeah that had to be it. He was a Ravenclaw and a prefect after all, he had to know what he was doing here right? "Um, I do okay, it's not my best subject though. You gonna help me if I get stuck on something?" She knew that if Jimmy was in class he would be able to help her, but he wasn't here yet. She glanced back at the door hoping to see him walk through it. Where was that boy? |
Divination was just plain awesome. Lots of stuff to predict and be amaazed about. Perhaps he would get to know if he had any future as a Quidditch player. Eep. Yes. He must know what was that all about. And secondly the professor of this lesson was just so pretty. Avoiding to look directly in her eyes he muttered a quick greeting "Hello Professor" before spotting a rather blond Legend and an awesome KT, Lando made his way to find a place near them. "Helloooo" he called out lightly from behind them. WHY were they not exchanging hellos? |
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But at that, she decided it may as well be time to start class. As long as nobody interrupted, she'd be fine. "Well, I guess I'll just get started then," she said quietly to herself, before moving to stand in front of her desk. "Welcome, all of you. Obviously, as you all know, this is Divination, and I'm Professor Bishop," she said to the room as a whole, then. "While I'm sure you all know the basics, there's a chance some of you don't know all of them, so that's where we'll begin." Glancing back at the chalkborad, she watched as the words vanished, preparing for what would be next. "If anyone wants to offer anything to start, feel free. You can say what you might already know, anything like that. It's good to know, but I'd also like someone to tell me what Divination is." Start at the beginning, work from there. Always a good place. ooc: starting after Mia, (no editing in responses guys. I'll know). Stick with one answer per post, as well. Let's spread the points out. And I don't think I need to remind you that if you haven't "entered", just act like you've been there all along. |
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Pandora smiled and shook his hand. "It's nice to meet you too, Raven." Pandora sat down. "Of course I'll be you're partner." She smiled. "So have you been to any other classes, yet?" |
Having walked into the classroom and sat down sometime earlier, Sierra Greingoth absentmindedly twirled a lock of her hair while she thought about Divination class. Easy? Hard? Who knew... ...but if she really was any good at telling the future, she'd already know, wouldn't she? Maybe once she had a few lessons under her belt, though, that might change. She glanced over at the professor uncertainly, suddenly wondering if she'd ever actually heard the woman's name before. If she had, she somehow didn't remember it. There were just too many new names and faces for her to have them all down pat right now. So she simply gave the woman a small smile then continued to wait quietly for the lesson to begin. |
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Getting a good look at Violet Selina saw the usual yellow bow adorned in her hair. Her uniform somewhat more classy and unique than the others in the classroom. "Hey Vi. Yeah I am, Adam and I were talking about dreams and Divination in the Common Room last night. I keep a dream diary so I guess you could say I'm interested in the topic. What about you?" |
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Woah. How did she know that he was tired? She was a mind reader or something. Or maybe she had the inner-eye?? Pssh. Never mind. "Orlando." Legend muttered with a slight nod, as the younger boy sat down close. He didn't have to say much. Katie would greet him and talk to him and baby him. Yup. He, on the other hand was still waiting on the moment to give Lando pushups. |
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"Purple's my favourite colour too." Mia said as she finally tore her gaze away from the girl's hair and settled on her face. And then she too giggled at what the girl said. "Well I have to admit you are the first person I saw when I walked into the room." She twisted in her seat and faced the older girl and extended her own hand. "It's a pleasure to meet you Satine. My name is Mia Gibbins, fifth year Hufflepuff." She gave Satine's hand a shake before dropping her own hand onto the desk. "This is one of my favourite classes. What about you?" |
SPOILER!!: Alex! Eyes fixated on the board and the way 'Divination' was written, Treyen started to regret his decision of coming in. "Alex, hey!" he said, with a small smile, and watched the oh-so-much-taller-than-him boy take a seat next to him. Treyen's smile turned into a smirk when he noticed Alex taking out his books. Yeah, he was NOT doing that yet. He was here...to observe. Yes. "Me? Yeah, of course," he said, shrugging his shoulders. Why wouldn't he be okay, right? After how awful this year was turning out to be. "You?" the Lockhart boy was giving no indication at his slight dislike for the new Professor. SPOILER!!: Ced Oh? His eyes were on the badge already and it hasn't even been two minutes since Cedric sat down on the other side. Well, this wasn't FAIR either! For all he knew Treyen could look like a first year sitting between this two GIANTS! He frowned. Then let it go. There were more important things to worry about, no? How was life treating him? Hmmm...interesting. Awful. That was the answer. "Okay...I guess," he shrugged, and looked at the board again. His frowned deepened, "Yeah, everything's okay, how about you?" he truly didn't mind if he answered or not, he was now focused on NOT focusing. |
Charley walked into the Divination classroom. Most of the other students had already nabbed their seats, and she was surprised to see that the room looked very....normal. Thank goodness, she thought. A classroom that looks like the ones in school back home. Save for the charmed blackboard, that is, of course. Pretty cursive, too. It looks a lot like Mum's. Charley chose a desk on the right side of the class, near the bookshelf, that didn't have a student sitting in the one adjacent to it. Professor Bishop had arranged the desks into pairs, so she wanted to reduce her risk of being around any gossip. Or giggling, for that matter. "Hello, Professor Bishop," she greeted her teacher, sitting down and taking out her notebook, ink and quill, as well as a few jellybeans from the Bertie Bott's package she'd stashed in her bag, which she popped into her mouth one by one. She was still peeved that her Charms class had turned into an ogling session for most of the other girls. Apparently Professor Descoteaux was "sexy" and "dreamy". It's not as if I was the only first-year either. How creepy is that? she thought, disappointed that there was no response from her brother. Suffice to say, she was very relieved that she had another female Professor. And Divination sounded very interesting. It was one of the few things Henry had told her he was not good at. Lauren had sent a list in her first letter to Charley at school, of subjects that she was not good at-meaning she wasn't one of the top students in that class when she was at Hogwarts. I will be, though. I'm off to a pretty successful start. I can definitely do this. |
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Especially if they were only going over the basics. But, what better way to make herself stay awake then to answer questions? "Divination is the..." What. "...attempt, I guess you can put it, to foresee into future events or gain answers from questions that you may need guidance on, using...various tools." Tools being things like FIRE! |
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MOOOOOOVING ON. Once Bishop was done talking, Jake raised his hand. What he wanted to say was how TERRIBLE he was at this subject... but he settled with something else. "Well, like the name suggests, I guess Divination is... divining. That's usually what some kind of god-like dude does, and a kind of omniscient thing. So... it's... getting information I guess from natural occurances." ... Maybe. |
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"Divination is magic which attempts to foresee future events. Many consider this branch of magic to be imprecise at best. There are several types of Divination. The most imprecise is type known as "fortunetelling," also reading tea leaves, palmistry, crystal balls, astrology, and more. |
Parke raised his hand, pleased that he knew the answer to this question, at least. He had done a bit of general studying on the topic before class. "Divination, stemming from the latin 'divinare', is the art of gaining insight into a situation or problem of some kind, through use of a certain object, ritual, or combination of the two. It allows you information you would not ordinarily have access to." |
Simon looked at the Professor and raised his hands. "Divination is something that helps you clear your mind and make you able to see the future, well sometimes you can." Simon smiled, he had no idea if this was right but he was hopefull it was he had been studying the subject over the summer. |
SPOILER!!: KRIIISTIN<3 As he sat, he placed the bag on the desk and openned it, searching for his book. Errrrrr... Looks like someone had snuck him a surprise this morning. Extra sweets for later. The boy smirked, leaving the various candies in the bag for the off chance that he'd lose his initial hyperness, and pulled out the book, placing it on his desk clumsily. Jayce watched as the professor moved towards her desk and begun class. And now she was asking questions. Ermmm.. Divination.. He'd never exactly enjoyed the course and wasn't particularly good at it.. Right. Time to answer. The boy raised his hand waving it back and forth in the air. He had no clue what he was going to say, but hopefully once he was called on it would come out somewhat intelligent. As he was called on, he quickly put his hand down, and opened up his mouth. "Well, Divination is.. it's kind of like predicting stuff.. right? But it's more complicated than that. It can come from various things around you, yes? For example.. you can do a prediction based on tea.. orr.. the clouds in the sky. Right?" Kinda? Maybe? Sorta? He shut up then, swaying slightly in his chair to the music that only he could hear in his head. |
Pandora raised her hand. "Divination is a way to gain insight to questions or situations by way of rituals. Some examples of Divination are Taromancy, tasseomancy, and cleromancy." She said. "It was and still is practiced among Shamans, Pagans, Wiccans, and in places like Africa where the people are still in touch with their ancestral roots." |
Satine shot her hand up in the air, "Professor, Divination is like making the unknown known..." then paused...that made sense to her but she decided to explain further, "It's the discovery of things hidden in the past, the present, or the future by the interpretation of signs and symbols and stuff." she said with a little nod. |
Always the same start to every year in every subject - a definition of key terms or core tenets. Though some might find it redundant, Bennet actually enjoyed the consistency. Everyone starts on somewhat equal footing with the most basic of information. Raising his hand to contribute to the conversation, Bennet added, "Foretelling the future using any one of a vast number of different methods and materials as decided by the divinor. These methods and materials are systematic means with which to organize what appear to be random components of existence." |
Eino listened to everyone else's responses, but they all sounded like parrots in a vast room, that is repeating each other and speaking over their echoes. He dipped his quill in the ink bottle and wrote down. Divination, the art of foretelling the future. One would suppose it would require painting or sculpturing the future, but it wasn't that sort of art, or at least he hoped not. "Professor," He began with his hand in the air "Divination is only presumption, correct?" He had heard that most Diviners and Soothsayers were frauds and that Divination was often inaccurate. "Also, I heard that Muggles, most notably the Greeks, practice Divination through what they consider to be 'divine beings,' such as the Greek gods and goddesses, that show them prophecies and the future, is this true? Is their form of soothsaying accurate?" This led him to a series of other questions, but someone else began speaking before he could continue, which was for the better, otherwise he would never shut up. |
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Moving the discussion along, she looked out at the classroom as a whole yet again. "Now that we've gotten a basic idea of what Divination is, I'd like to see if anyone knows the answer to this. Ancient peoples generally separated Divination into at least two types. Each encompassing many forms within, but can anyone give me those classifications?" Or anything even close. She knew what she was after, but there was the possibility the texts gave slightly different information, not to mention she didn't know what all the students might have read beyond the textbook. |
"It is a discipline that attempts to foresee the future or to gather some insight on events in the future with perhaps different tools and rituals," said Pandora after raising her hand. She lowered soon after, clasping her hands in front of her on her desk. |
Text Cut: Satine, the note, Professor Bishop, and the start of class. ^_^ Text Cut: Satine, the note, Professor Bishop, and the start of class. ^_^ Dallin gave Satine a smile as she sat down in front of him. He raised an eyebrow questioningly, but just as he read it, the professor saw it. He looked up at her innocently, wondering if her words were a warning to not pass notes. She didn't seem angry about it, but he decided it was better not to chance it, and he didn't pass a note back. He did smile slightly, though, at Satine's reply to the warning. Yeah, it was completely harmless. At the question, he raised a hand. "Divination is trying to see the future, mostly, right? To know what's going to come. I know that there's a lot of different ways you can do so, like tea leaves and Astronomy and stuff." Not the best answer, but at least it was something.[/COLOR] |
Alice thought carefully before she answered and then raised her hand “Divination is…well it is basically telling or seeing into the future using a number of different methods. There are actually forms of Divination in the muggle world, they have monthly or daily horoscopes in their newspapers and things like fortune cookies in Chinese restaurants, Although not much of it actually works. But then people are sceptical of divination in our world." |
Alex looked at Treyen and smiled. They'd have a chance to talk after the lesson. Instead he focused his attention on the text, trying to find an answer to the question the professor had asked. Divination used a lot of BIG words, and he didn't have the slightest clue what any of them meant. He raised his hand and decided to just give it his best shot. "Erm, are they split into how you go about getting an interpretation? Like, some forms you throw things like bones and look at their pattern and stuff, and others you just stare at it until you see something. Like crystal balls," he explained. That sounded really confusing to him and he had probably confused the professor too. He lowered his hand and blushed, waiting to see what her reply was. |
"Are you talking about divination thru use of the stars, professor?" she asked alittle confused by the question. The look on her face was clear that she hadn't full understand because th little part between her brows was crinkled. |
Ok so divination was the one class he hadn't done so well on the OWL he took. Simon decided to giev it another shot since he figured he might still enjoy the class. Listening as the class began and sitting quietly taking notes, the latest question struck something in his mind from reading and he raised a hand. "Are you talking about the split between natural and artificial divination?" he asked in supply lowering his hand. |
Parke thought for a moment about the professor's next question. Hadn't there been three types? Frowning, he tried to remember what exactly he'd read. Finally, he raised his hand, still slightly unsure. "There's...well... Cleromancy, in which an object is cast, and the outcome is determined by the way the object falls." He paused. It made way more sense in his head. "Like tea leaf reading, I suppose. The other, augery, determines which possible outcome, when there are many, is most likely. Like determining a most likely path one will take with the use of card reading." Merlin, he hoped he was at least partially right. |
Jackie sat and debated whether or not to raise her hand she decided against it and decided it would be a good time to get a piece of paper. She quickly rummaged in her bag and grabbed a nice long piece of parchmant and her best quill. SPOILER!!: notes |
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Erm... and now he was lost. Divination was a lesson he could not fluke his way through. "I have no idea, so I'm gonna say... stuff about the future or stuff about right NOW?" Bad guess was bad. WHOOT! |
Tyrone put his hand in the air before answering. "The types of Divination. Well it could be Earthly and Heavenly, right? I mean, Earthly because it uses things that we can find on the Earth, being things like tea leaves, smoke form fires 'nd stuff. And Heavenly because we can use the stars and the alignment of the planets to foresee things too" |
Lila raised her hand. "Some of the classifications are augury, omens, and sortilege," she answered. |
Text Cut: SilverTiger Eino had heard of a very popular oracle but he didn't know too much about it. "I have heard of the Pee-Thee-Ah." With his arm raised, he pronounced it very carefully and very awkwardly, and his Finnish accent actually took effect when he did so, which was very rare. "Also known as the Oracle of Delphi," that second one was easier to pronounce, he thought, "which were prophecies." Divination didn't sound too bad after all, so long as they discussed such things as historical importances of Divination and not drink tea to read tea leaves he would enjoy the class. Two categories? Eino knew of one type of Divination but didn't know if it would answer the Professor's question. Raising his hand he said, "Is Cleromancy one of them, Professor?" |
He doubted that his answer would be correct, but as he couldn't think of any major subdivision of Divination, he suggested with a raised hand, "Perhaps celestial versus terrestrial? Heavenly bodies versus bones or sticks, etc." Bennet continued to contemplate the question, but was coming up short. |
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"Astrology and Cartomancy, ma'am?" Pandora asked, her hand raised again. She wasn't sure if she should give a description of each or not, mainly because she wasn't even sure if her answer was right. |
Alice was now completely lost. Being one of the sceptics of this subject she hadn’t really done much reading on it…well she had tried last night but then she got into a conversation and then she had fallen asleep when reading her books. She hadn’t expected this kind of question at all. Well never mind, she wouldn’t be able to answer straight away in every class. Maybe it would be best just to sit back and listen to everyone else’s responses. |
Pandora raised her hand. "The two types of Divination are Natural Divination and Artifitial Divination." She went into more detail. "Natural Divination means that the Divination operates without an outside devices. It is usually called 'intuitive' or 'inspired'. It is also believed that the knowledge that the person has is passed through them by a God and is given to them through dreams. Artificial Divination is like what others mentioned before: tesseomancy and chiromancy. There is an outside device controling the Divination." |
Waiting for answers to her question, Renée raised an eyebrow again as another student, a little Ravenclaw, chose to walk in late. Not only that, but she didn't really even seem to notice that she had, which made her sigh inwardly. Why did it have to be a Ravenclaw? "Good morning. It was nice of you to join us, but unfortunately you are late. One point from Ravenclaw," she replied, still inwardly flinching. Hopefully the girl would catch up with the lesson. Again!? At least she hadn't asked her to explain. Enough people knew about her family issues. She really didn't need her brother trying to get revenge for ruining his chances with an attractive girl or something stupid like that. Nathaniel would no doubt get peeved about the fact that she told her Ancient Runes professor that he was essentially the reason she was late. Maybe I am just really off schedule. But it is the first day, so maybe I just need to get used to where my classes are. Quote:
Nathaniel was studying this over break, wasn't he? She decided to interject; she hated speaking in front of her peers, but she really needed to get back some house points. "I think she's right: astrology and cartomancy. Divination using celestial forms, like the planets, and fortune-telling," she said as clearly as possible, hoping her memory was correct. |
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Simon smiled softly back in return as his answer as well as another's had been the one the professor had been searching more all along. The added points were just a bonus to knowing he wasn't too bad in the subject. Listening to the next question, he raised his hand once more to provide an example. "There is Oneiromancy or the divination through the study of dreams," he replied. |
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Annabelle managed to find the divination classroom. She saw the professors name on the chalkboard. "Hello Professor Bishop" she said quietly smiling and waving. She found Jania and she sat down with her. She responded to what divination was "Divination, is a study in which you clear your mind and you discover another world in your dreams and make predictions based on what you know." she hopefully answered right, since she was a first year after all and wanted to take this class because she wanted to do something different. |
Pandora raised her hand. "There is Lithomancy, which has to do with stones and gems. The traditional method uses thirteen stones in all. The first seven represent the ancient astrological signs: sun, moon, mars, mercury, saturn, jupiter, and uranus. Then the remaining six represent the home: love, luck, health, magic, and news." |
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Entirely. But that didn't matter when he raised his hand, right? "I suppose 'Pyromancy' could be one of the artificial forms, no? The one that uses fire for interpretation," he said, with a nod, Fletcher came to mind when he said 'Pyromancy', he'd surely like that Divination method. And then boy eyed the Gryffindor Captain and frowned slightly, before raising his hand again, "Wouldn't 'Oneiromancy' be between the natural forms, though? Since the dreams aren't particularly forced on us and all." |
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Parke listened to the other students give their answers. When the professor pointed out the correct response, he nodded to himself. That made more sense. He made sure to write it down. Another question already. They didn't stay on one topic for too long, did they? He raised hand once again. At least this answer he was sure of. "Aeromancy is one. Not commonly practiced, it involves the interpretation of cloud shape, size, and color in particular, but the name can be applied to any kind of divination that makes use of things in the sky, and not covered under astrology." |
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She absentmindedly tapped her foot lightly against the floor as she thought about all the various types of divination she'd heard of just from being part of a household where all its members were witches and wizards. Most of the obvious ones had already been named. Hmm... Raising her hand, she said, "What about Tiromancy?" That was divination using cheese. It sounded interesting enough. Kind of funny, too. "It's a type of divination using cheese, which...sounds really unusual." |
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With a shudder at the disgustingness of the thought, Bennet offered, "Cartopedy - feet divination. Though why anyone would want to touch someone else's feet to divine the future is beyond me. With people's creepy toes, especially when the second one is longer than the first. Or when the big toe is huuuuuuuge and bulbous. And the toe nails. Ugh. I think I might throw up in my mouth at the thought," Bennet realized he was rambling and cut himself off abruptly. With a deer in the headlights look, he glanced around the room and then down at his desk, where he vowed he would keep his eyes for the rest of the lesson. |
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After all, they have studied it before. And it wasn't a hard one either! He could've said Palmistry instead of Cheiromancy and still get away with it. Treyen was seriously considering just asking for a permission out of the class...and then his eyes wandered off to Ellie. He sighed. He wasn't leaving. |
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Ellie did not like this. She felt ill. Literally ill. She was considering visiting Moretti after class. Her position had not changed. She was still shaking. Her limbs were still crossed over each other. Her eyes were unfocused, and so was her brain. She had no idea what was going on in class. All she could think about was how much she did NOT want to be here. It all felt too foreign. Different teacher, different desk arrangement, different people. Well, she wasn't sure about that last one, but not the point. And it was HOT. Was it always hot in this class? Or is it just under these circumstances. Probably the latter, considering she was shivering simultaneously. Huh. She chewed her lip. More than anything at this moment, even more than leaving class, she wanted to STOP thinking about the way she felt things ought to be. Because that was why the tears were coming. And she did NOT want to cry in public. Yet, occasionally, a tear was dripping from her eye. But no one would notice, right? She had her head turned from the majority of the class, so all was good, hopefully. |
Heather had no idea what was going on. Her strongsuite definitely wasn't divination but she paid attention anyway. |
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Emmaleigh nodded her head, took some notes on the two types of divination. It was all quite interesting. Hearing the request for a type of artificial divination, the girl raised her hand before saying, "Rune casting" She smiled thinking about the idea. it would be so cool to have a lesson on that topic since it combined her two favorite classes. |
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Dallin had stayed quiet for the last couple questions, not knowing much about the specifics in Divination. He really hadn't cared enough about it to learn much in his other classes. But the Divination at Hogwarts seemed alright, so he decided to pay a bit more attention, and try to contribute and maybe earn some house points. He listened as students listed off forms of Divination, only recognizing a few of them. He frowned slightly as he tried to think of an original answer. All that was coming to him was muggle forms of fortune telling. Palm reading, Astrology, tarrot cards... sigh. He couldn't remember if they had already been said, but he didn't want to chance it. So he just looked at the professor, waiting for a question he knew, that wouldn't make him sound like an idiot if he tried to answer it. |
Satine listened to the next question and flipped through her notebook to her notes from last term from her study abroad time of six weeks at Beuxbaton. She laughed to herself when she found notes on her fave form of Divination. She shot her hand in the air knowing for sure that no one would know this form, "Professor, I have to admit that I find Stolismancy the most entertaining...It's were you draw omens from the way peeps dress..." she said click her blue heels together and smiling. |
"Erm, would aichmomancy be an example? It's divination through sharp objects", Chloe said with her hands raised high. |
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Selina looked up from her table as she took down the notes on the separate types of divination. When Professor Bishop addressed the class on any other forms of divination Selina thought hard. Her Uncle Jensen was a healer at St. Mungo's who had done extensive research on the healing effects of tea leaves. She had remembered he had gone through a period of time studying tea leaves use in the magical word. He had mentioned something like tessomancy. It sounded like a type of divination so Selina raised her hand. "Excuse me, ma'am. Isn't a type of divination tessomancy? My uncle studied tea leaves and had mentioned something about it having special properties to read for divination purposes, ma'am." |
GOSH. There were SO MANY forms of Divination out there! This was so confusing! He scanned the list of Divination practices in his book and did a double take at some of them. Why on Earth would some people want to look at the body parts of dead animals to tell the future?! Seers were WEIRD. He raised his hand. "Nephomancy is the practice of Divination using clouds. I'm assuming you look for shapes in the clouds and interpret that stuff," he explained. That sounded kind of cool. Maybe he'd look for shapes the next time he went outside! |
SPOILER!!: Trey Treyen frowned, and Cedric pretty much expected it. Giving the boy a rather cool smile, he was about to tell him that he had been having good days, though somewhat boring, when the new Divination Professor started to talk and he knew that professors don't like it... when somebody's talking at the same time she/he is. So he just glued his eyes to the professor, listening to every bit she said as a non-slacker student would most likely do. Quote:
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Rex is sitting next to Rene. Rex is happy that Rene, his fiancee. is so smart. " How about Tarot Cards?" Rex asked the professor. |
"What about Hydromancy, professor? The divination by water." Evangeline suggested. Divination wasn't particularly her forte, but she still made an effort. |
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Witsy's pocket calmed down a little with a few bubbles escaping her view. In her attempt to keep the bubbles away from disrupting the class, she tried ignoring some of them, even though some of them were hard to miss. Oh no what was her question, she thought. Something about artificial divinations... um what about dream warriors, she thought and raised her hand to speak. |
Text Cut: SilverTiger Eino listened attentively as the Professor elaborated on his very brief answer in regards to oracles, the Greeks, and Pythia. He was actually making sense in divination? And understanding? AND LIKING IT?! Absurd! Eino hated divination! Well, most of his hate was a product of his ignorance and now that he understood it, he liked it. He began to write down more and more notes, detailed, specifics, trying to record every word the Professor said. HE raised once again, this time not timidly or hesitantly but very enthusiastically, his hand shot in the air, in a very "Me, me, me! Pick me!" way. And finally it was his turn to speak, "Professor, there are far too many forms of Divination that I have heard of. One of them I have tried practicing was Austromancy, the study of the winds, but to no avail." Eino failed miserably, and left him to wonder how was he supposed to study something he couldn't see. It probably required an additional skill, he thought. |
"Umm, how about NUMEROLOGY, which is the numerical interpretation of numbers, dates, and the number value of letters" Ronnie added raising her hand as well. She really wanted to earn her house some points. They were already in last place. And she wasn't going to stand for it this year!! She just wasn't Ronnie lowered her hand and place them folded on her desk...waiting to see what the Professor thought of her answer. |
Luin sat in the class looking down at her textbook frowning slightly. Although she loved learning, Divination was not her normal avenue of looking at things. She liked much more structured, formalized things. Although that last question was interesting. She thought of everything that she had memorized that was in the book, and some stuff she had heard classmates and other friends mention before...hmmm Artificial divination? She raised her hand slowly, "Ummm, would Cartomancy be an example perhaps? Reading cards?" |
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Only noting the first mentions (with a few exceptions) Text Cut: Forms of Divination (plus Treyen/Jake) As people started offering ideas as to various forms of Divination, Renée started thinking that people were getting more interested in the topic. Or they were just interested in gaining points, but as long as they were participating, she didn't really mind their reasoning. Participation always made class more fun. "You all seem to have done a bit of research," she said idly, noting those who were going to be awarded points at the same time as flicking her wand at the chalkboard once again to start listing the ideas as they were mentioned. It saved her from having to go through everything on her own, although she knew this was still going to be only a partial list. SPOILER!!: divination list "You'll notice a few of the forms that were mentioned aren't up here as of yet, but there's a reason," she added then, with a brief glance at Mr Lockhart as he seemed to get into a bit of an issue with Jake. She'd keep her eye on those two, along with the spot by the wall where she still knew she was being watched. It made things interesting, really. "And I'd imagine Professor Truebridge could shed a bit more light on the subject of Runic divination, so we'll let that one stay to the side for now." She could answer questions as well, but the lesson needed to keep moving. Quote:
Text Cut: numerology/arithmancy As she finished addressing the Hufflepuff, she turned to those who had mentioned numerology. "You three are correct. Numerology is indeed a form of Divination, and Arithmancy can be closely connected to Divination because of that. But as I mentioned regarding runes, I'd imagine Professor Hadley could explain arithmancy to you in more detail." And considering that was her fellow professor's subject, she did explain it quite regularly. "I'll add it to our list, though." There was no reason not to, when they were just giving an overview of divinatory forms. Text Cut: ^_^ nice lead-in SPOILER!!: divination list with additions Completing their divination list, as established by the students, Renée turned back to the students who'd spoke about tarot cards with another smile. "It seems you might be a bit hopeful about that subject," she said to the two who had mentioned them by name, before turning back to the class as a whole. "Cartomancy, or its similar cousin Taromancy, is quite the delicate study. As was mentioned, it can most commonly be considered reading cards, Taromancy being more specific to the Tarot while basic cartomancy can use any form of cards. Actually, most common is a basic deck of Muggle playing cards. And there's another offshoot that simply uses what are known as oracle decks, which is a bit more, well specific than either divination with playing cards or Tarot cards," she said, moving slightly toward the bookshelf as she spoke. If anyone was curious, she could explain their uses as well, but at a later time. "For now, let's stick with the basics, though," she continued. "Maybe with the Tarot." And her discussion was turning a bit more casual, it seemed. "Does anyone want to offer a fact or two about the Tarot? Anything about the specific cards in the deck, or whatever else you can think of." Then maybe they could look into the correlation between that deck and the others. It would depend on what she got right now. ooc: As usual, try to stick with only one fact, etc. per post. Let others get a word in. :) Try not to get too into chats as well and things will continue later. With more fun. |
Helena raised her hand and hesitated for a moment. "We can use cards to gain insight into the current and possible future situations of... what we want to know," she said slowly. "Am I right?" she added, looking at the professor. |
OOOH! Tarot cards! Kurumi had had fun with making her own deck last term for homework and was looking forward to studying them again. "One of the more well known decks is The Major Arcana, or greater secrets," Kurumi offered with her hand raised. |
Taromancy. Eino added to his notes including the brief introduction and description the professor had given. Being well acquainted with different periods of European history, such as the Middle Ages, apparently came in handy for more than just History of Magic. He could recall that these were popular during the time and quite often used, perhaps of the most popular used forms of Divination, after Cyclomancy maybe. "Professor," He began with his hand raised, "the deck is divided into two parts, I believe. The Major and Minor Arcana. The Major includes cards like the fool, the lovers, the sun, and so on. I think there are twenty or maybe twenty two total. There are more Minor Arcana cards, something around fifties, I believe, and those are separated into subcategories, too." So he didn't know that many details, but hopefully this would suffice. |
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